In 1786 James Peachey, an officer in the British army, engraved this scene of Mohawk children working at their lessons. At this time many Mohawks could speak and write English, but many also could read and write in Mohawk. Joseph Brant helped translate the Anglican Book of Common Prayer and the Gospel of St. Mark into Mohawk, these being printed in London in 1786. Some correspondence in Mohawk survives in archival collections, such as letters written to the British Indian Superintendent in MontrÄal, Daniel Claus, found in the Claus Family Papers in the Public Archives in Ottawa. Peachey's illustration appears in A Primer for the Use of Mohawk Children (1786) by Daniel Claus.
